MarketWatch: Facebook tops Amazon and Google in 2Q lobbying spending.It’s promoted as a ‘safe kids’ chat app’, but new findings may put you off letting your children use the Facebook Messenger Kids app.
A design flaw has been discovered within the app, that allowed thousands of children to chat to strangers online.
A report by The Verge revealed that Facebook has quietly been closing down these group chats and alerting users, but did not make a public statement about the issue.
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...the flaw meant that children could be added to group chats with strangers, as long as one of their trusted contacts had added them.
Facebook Inc. shelled out $4.1 million on lobbying Washington in the second quarter, topping the outlays by other so-called FAANG companies and keeping the tech giant on pace for another record year of spending to influence lawmakers and regulators.
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Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.00% wasn’t far behind with $4 million[.]
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Google business spent $2.9 million from April through June[.]
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Netflix Inc.,...spent a relatively modest $200,000.
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